Both the ancient Hawaiians and the Toltec saw physical reality as a vast energy system. The Hawaiians spoke in terms of living the spirit of aloha. How I experience that is being in alignment with my spirit and sharing my love. I found it interesting when my Aunty (Hawaiian teacher) told me there were no words for anger and the associated judgment in the ancient Hawaiian language. When living the spirit of aloha the only type of energy you can put out is aloha or love.

In the Toltec tradition we are seen as magician constantly manipulating energy either consciously or unconsciously. Mentally I imagine it as sending out ripples or emanations of energy. We are all responsible for the ripples we produce in our life and those ripples have impact. Responsibility is simply our ability to respond. If we are all caught up in our filter system the best we can do is respond based on our archaic judgments and fears.

If we want to experience personal freedom it is our responsibility to clear out our filter system. We can use our awareness to realize our reactions are based on our filter system and then we can use our intent to begin to transform the way we see life. We are either reacting to life or consciously choosing how we are going to act.

I find it helps if I begin to observe without judgment what I am sending out. I imagine all the energy pings circling the globe. I can react to the pings I perceive or I can begin to consciously choose to send out ripples of love. What kind of ripples are you sending out with your thoughts? Are you sending out judgment, fear, or love? For a moment imagine yourself sending out a ripple of aloha and the next person catching that wave and sending out aloha and the next person doing the same until the energy of aloha circles the globe and comes back to you.

One of the tools of the Toltec tradition is recapitulation. (For a complete explanation of recapitulation go to http://susangregg.com/questions_and_answers.htm) You consciously use your breath to release energy and pull in energy. One way you can use your breath is to imagine breathing in love and acceptance and then breathing out love and acceptance. If there is someone or something you have a judgment about breathing it in this way is very freeing. You are responsible and you can change your ability to respond.

As always be gentle and loving with yourself,
Susan

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The Toltecs viewed the world as a vast energy system. We are magicians constantly creating our experience of reality. We create by manipulating energy. What we think determines how we hold the energy and how we hold the energy dictates our creation.

If you put a square shaped ice cube tray filled with water in the freezer you will get square ice cubes. You can put it in the freezer and affirm you want round ice cubes, you can do a ceremony, you can do anything you want, but you will get square ice cubes.

We can think I love myself, I deserve happiness and we still create evidence in our life that we don’t feel loved. Life constantly shows us in three-dimensional reality what our beliefs, agreements and assumptions are. Life reflects our intent and our level of awareness. If we want to transform our life we must change the energy we hold within us. We hold that energy based on our filter system.

If you want your life to reflect love you need to feel love. I find it useful to differentiate between emotions and feelings. Emotions are things like mad, sad, angry, love, and glad. Feelings are sensations in our body. Emotions will create sensations. If we feel loved we are holding the energy of love and our life will reflect it. If we walk around feeling afraid our life will reflect that as well yet affirm we are loved.

Use the three masteries – awareness, transformation and intent to create a life full of magic and wonder. Focus your awareness on what is going in within yourself right now. What are you feeling? Use your intent to change that feeling and transform what you are feeling into how you would feel if you had what you sat you want.

What do you want your life to reflect? Right now it reflects where you are internally. Change how you are feeling and you will change your life.

People often ask me for concrete suggestions and exercises. A very powerful exercise is to set an alarm of some sort for random times during the day. When it goes off take a deep breath, go inside and notice your thoughts. Take another deep breath and notice your emotions. Then take another deep breath and notice your feelings. It takes time to become proficient at this. Remember any spiritual practice takes practice.

Practice feeling what you want to feel – how you would feel if your life reflected what you want – instead of feeling what your filter system tells you to feel. Personal freedom is choosing moment by moment.

With love,
Susan

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